ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS WORKSHOP-CONNECTGREEN 22 APRIL 2016 PRŮHONICE, CZECH REPUBLIC Part-financed by the Europen Union
22nd of April (Friday) 9:00 11:00 Opening of the Meeting - welcome and opening remarks by the Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening (host), the Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention, Friends of the Earth Czech Republic(Olomouc branch), NFA (National Forest Administration) ROMSILVA Piatra Craiului National Park Administration and (Dušan Romportl, Simona Horká, Eleonora Musco, Miroslav Kutal and Mircea Verghelet) Overview and presentation of the meeting objectives (Eleonora Musco, Ivan Svetozarevic) Common understanding of ConnectGREEN main objective, envisaged results and main outputs (Eleonora Musco, Ivan Svetozarevic, Project Partners) Danube Transnational Programme 2nd Step: Application Package, Documents required from PPs, Deadlines (Eleonora Musco, Ivan Svetozarevic) 11:00 11:15 Coffee Break 11:15 12:30 Danube Transnational Programme 2nd Step: Application Package, Documents required from PPs, Deadlines (Eleonora Musco, Ivan Svetozarevic) MEETING PROGRAMME Discussion on ConnectGREEN Work Packages(WPs) and related activities (Ivan Svetozarevic, Mircea Verghelet, Hildegard Meyer, Ján Kadlečík, Natalia Kubicová, Vaclav Hlaváč, Martin Strnad, Eleonora Musco)
12:30 13:30 Lunch at Floret Hotel 13:30 15:00 Discussion on ConnectGREEN Work Packages(WPs) and related activities (Ivan Svetozarevic, Mircea Verghelet, Hildegard Meyer, Ján Kadlečík, Natalia Kubicová, Vaclav Hlaváč, Martin Strnad, Eleonora Musco) 15:00 15:15 Coffee Break 15:15 17:00 Discussion on ConnectGREEN Work Packages(WPs) and related activities (Ivan Svetozarevic, Mircea Verghelet, Hildegard Meyer, Ján Kadlečík, Natalia Kubicová, Vaclav Hlaváč, Martin Strnad, Eleonora Musco) Next steps 17:00 Closure of the meeting Overall harmonization and synergies with TRANSGREEN Project (Eleonora Musco, Ivan Svetozarevic, Hildegard Meyer ) Budget revision (Eleonora Musco, Ivan Svetozarevic, Project Partners)
OVERVIEW AND PRESENTATION OF THE MEETING OBJECTIVES SUCCESSFULL DTP 1st STEP TOWARDS THE DTP 2nd STEP PPs AWARE OF THE 2nd STEP REQUIREMENTS PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND WPs DISCUSSED PREPARE THE GROUND FOR THE DETAILED BUDGET DEFINITION
COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF CONNECTGREEN MAIN OBJECTIVE, ENVISAGED RESULTS AND MAIN OUTPUTS INTERVENTION LOGIC
EOI EVALUATION Strategic Relevance: The proposal targets mountainous areas of the DR to improve connectivity and appropriate management of eco-corridors of transnational relevance, which has good potential contribution to the SO 2.3 of the DTP. Its transnationality is demonstrated and it also has good potential contribution to the EUSDR and the Carpathians Convention protocols. The proposal could have been more concrete on the geographic target of the project, as Carpathian region is mentioned to have special focus on, for which the partnership is good, but the proposal often refers to the "mountainous areas of the DR" in general, which is broader than that. Potential capitalisation measures could have also been described, considering the results of previous projects, like the Bioregio Carpathians to be built on. The project intervention logic has coherence with the programme one, although objectives and the result could be fine-tuned and certain activities could have been better detailed (e.g. communication, pilots). More information on the specific areas where the 4 pilot activities are to be carried out would have been appreciated. The partnership is very good for the Carpathian region, directly involving key actors and competences on different scales, involving international bodies, which can strengthen durability and transferability of the results. Involving some more actors from spatial planning field could be still beneficial.
Operational Relevance: In general the proposed methodology and the work plan are coherent, presenting the general logic, although the timing of some WPs could have been more coherent. Details on activities and partly their geographic scope could have been better elaborated, which also do not fully justify the size of WP budgets, especially in case of WP2 and 4 Recommendations: 1. The intervention logic could be improved by a more focused formulation of the main objective and the project result; ensuring also that specific objective 1 and 3 descriptions reflect the immediate effects of the project, as well as the outputs of the pilot activities more concretely formulated. 2. The budget of the proposal could be reconsidered.
DANUBE TRANSNATIONAL PROGRAMME 2 ND STEP: APPLICATION PACKAGE, DOCUMENTS REQUIRED FROM PPS, DEADLINES LINK TO FULL APPLICATION: http://www.interreg-danube.eu/calls/calls-for-proposals/first-call/submission-ofproposals-2nd-sept-1st-call
NECESSARY INFORMATION FROM EACH PPS Legal Identification data ERDF PP Geographical Scope of the ERDF PP Activities ERDF PP s Relevance for the proposed Project (thematic Competence) What is the Benefit for the Organisation and the Territory that represents from Participating in this Project? Description of previous Participation in other EU funded Projects. Revenues generated by the Project
COMMENTS RECEIVED TO EOI
DISCUSSION ON CONNECTGREEN WORK PACKAGES(WPS) AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
OVERALL HARMONIZATION AND SYNERGIES WITH TRANSGREEN PROJECT
BUDGET REVISION
NEXT STEPS 24th/25th April: Circulation of the Template for describing WPs activities according to the Application Form 26th April 2016 at 12:00: Skype call for a detailed discussion on WP3 and WP4 27th April 2016: Submission of activities and deliverables by WPs Leaders 27th April 2016: Meeting between LP and SCC with DTP JTS in Budapest (Tbc) 29th April 2016: Circulation of the Partnership Agreement signed by LP(Tbc) 29th April 2016: Circulation of detailed activities 4th May 2016: Deadline for sending the scan of the signed documents mandatory for PPs First week of May: Budget defined according to the activities 9th May 2016: Deadline for submission